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Eunice Tietjens

ユーニス・ティーテンズ

Yūnisu Tītenzu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1884-07-29 （Chicago, Illinois, USA）
Died
1944-09-06 （Chicago, Illinois, USA） age 60
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Europe (educated) → Florida, USA (residence) → New York City, USA (residence) → Japan (residence/travel) → China (residence/travel) → Tahiti (residence/travel) → Tunisia (residence/travel)

Career

Occupations
poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, editor
Active Years
1904-1944

Education

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Educated in Europe and travelled widely in youth; specific institutions not documented in available sources.

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Burton Holmes Travel Stories: Japan, Korea and Formosa

1924 travel writing / short stories

A collection of travel stories and sketches about East Asia. Contains descriptions that reflect Eurocentric and period-specific prejudices.

travelcross-cultural encounternature

Old Friendship

poem

A poem themed around friendship and memory.

friendshipmemory

The Steam Shovel

poem

A poem dealing with machinery and human relations, symbolizing aspects of modernization.

modernitymachinery

Presence of Eternity

poem

A meditative poem on eternity and time.

timeeternity

Bibliography

  • Burton Holmes Travel Stories: Japan, Korea and Formosa (1924)
  • Various poems and short prose pieces (published in magazines and collections)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyrical voicesymbolic and meditative imageryobservational travel writing
Recurring Motifs
travelnaturememory and timecultural encounter

Health

  • cancer
    Died of cancer in 1944. Likely affected late-career activity.

Legacy

A poet and editor active in the early 20th-century American literary scene. Longtime associate editor of Poetry magazine who supported emerging writers; known for poems and travel writing. Some works contain period-specific colonial attitudes which are subject to modern re-evaluation. Papers are held at the Newberry Library.

Museums

  • Newberry Library (Special Collections) 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Archives

  • Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections

Quotes

  • “For a great many years this island of Formosa was a terror that haunted all the Western sailors who sailed in those seas…”
    Source: Burton Holmes Travel Stories: Japan, Korea and Formosa (excerpt) (1924)

Trivia

  • Served as a World War I correspondent in France for the Chicago Daily News (1917–1918).
  • Was associate editor of Poetry magazine for more than 25 years.
  • Her papers and correspondence are held at the Newberry Library.